| Ohio Train Disasters Contributor(s): Turzillo, Jane Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 1626192588 ISBN-13: 9781626192584 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - Transportation | Railroads - History - Nature | Natural Disasters |
| Dewey: 363.122 |
| Series: Transportation |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.12" W x 8.97" (0.63 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a train wreck near Dresden in 1912. Author Jane Ann Turzillo unearths these red-hot stories of ill-fated passengers, heroic trainmen and the wrecking crews who faced death and destruction on Ohio's rails. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turzillo, Jane Ann: - Jane Ann Turzillo writes about Ohio history and true crime. Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio combines both. She was one of the original owners of the West Side Leader, a large northeast Ohio weekly newspaper, where she covered police news and wrote a historical crime column. She has won several Ohio Press Women awards for fiction and nonfiction and is the author of two historical books on Bath Township and Hudson, Ohio. |